UCLA professor says GOP Latinos would ‘rather be white’ - Washington Examiner

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UCLA professor says GOP Latinos would ‘rather be white’ - Washington Examiner

Some Latinos vote Republican because “they’d rather be white,” according to a University of California, Los Angeles, professor. Professor Efren Perez believes Latino Republicans have an “earnest and devout investment in whiteness as an ideology.” “If whiteness is an ideology, then your skin color and racial classification do not matter as much as your genuine belief in a subjugating worldview,” Perez wrote recently in a Newsweek essay. “If white…